A Life Well Lived Podcast

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Journalist Constance Knox (27) unearths extraordinary stories which transcend age with six riveting interviews with Third Agers (all the interviewees are over 70). The first series is made up of five episodes and features: A couple who both served time on Death Row following wrongful convictions (Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle), a 1952 Olympic medal winner, a survivor of the Nazi regime, the news anchor for radio Caroline in the 60’s which inspired the film “The Boat That Rocked”, and finally a cross generational discussion with two U3A members. Curated by Constance and produced by fellow millennial, Mariana De Forges, with the support of leading charity, U3A, and the leading sponsor Cox and Kings, A Life Well Lived Podcast brings remarkable stories to an audience both young and old.

Journalist Constance Knox (27) unearths extraordinary stories which transcend age with six riveting interviews with Third Agers (all the interviewees are over 70). The first series is made up of five episodes and features: A couple who both served time on Death Row following wrongful convictions (Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle), a 1952 Olympic medal winner, a survivor of the Nazi regime, the news anchor for radio Caroline in the 60’s which inspired the film “The Boat That Rocked”, and finally a cross generational discussion with two U3A members. Curated by Constance and produced by fellow millennial, Mariana De Forges, with the support of leading charity, U3A, and the leading sponsor Cox and Kings, A Life Well Lived Podcast brings remarkable stories to an audience both young and old.

Journalist Constance Knox (27) unearths extraordinary stories which transcend age with six riveting interviews with Third Agers (all the interviewees are over 70). The first series is made up of five episodes and features: A couple who both served time on Death Row following wrongful convictions (Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle), a 1952 Olympic medal winner, a survivor of the Nazi regime, the news anchor for radio Caroline in the 60’s which inspired the film “The Boat That Rocked”, and finally a cross generational discussion with two U3A members. Curated by Constance and produced by fellow millennial, Mariana De Forges, with the support of leading charity, U3A, and the leading sponsor Cox and Kings, A Life Well Lived Podcast brings remarkable stories to an audience both young and old.

Episodes

Helga Wolff is a survivor of the Nazi regime, who had to leave her family behind at the age of 15 to escape the holocaust, both her parents were killed in Auschwitz. She tells us how she coped with such tragedy and what it was like to be a little Jewish girl in Germany when Hitler came to power

Sunny (Sonia) Jacobs, 71, and Peter Pringle, 80. Before they met, Sunny and Peter faced the death penalty for separate yet similar crimes. In 1976, Sunny was placed on death row in Florida for the murder of two police officers. Four years later, in Dublin, Peter was sentenced to death for the murder of two officers of the Garda Síochána, the Irish police force. Between them they spent 32 years in prison. Sunny and Peter met in 1998 when Sunny, started campaigning against the death penalty....